[tattoolover420469]

I have comcast internet service on the computer I have right now, a Systemax Microsoft Windows 98 Second edition. I am trying to hook the internet up to my laptop which is a Inspiron 1100 Microsoft Windows XP. Now when I hook the internet up to the laptop a ding noise plays and then nothing happens. Then at the right bottom hand corner of the laptop a little icon with 2 computers and a x says Local Area Connection Network Cable Unplugged. Does anyone have any idea how I can hook the internet up to my laptop. For the systemax, all I have is the internet plugged in the back without a phonewire needed. Do I need to hook a phonewire up to the laptop in order for it to work? Someone please help!!

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"Hook up the internet" isn't a 100% logical statement

you say you've got comcast...so you've got a cable connection to the internet...which means you have a cable modem in your house....HOW does that cable modem connect to the PC that DOES work with the internet connection? is it cable that looks like a fat phone line? or a USB cable?

[dsenette]

"Hook up the internet" isn't a 100% logical statement

you say you've got comcast...so you've got a cable connection to the internet...which means you have a cable modem in your house....HOW does that cable modem connect to the PC that DOES work with the internet connection? is it cable that looks like a fat phone line? or a USB cable?

[tattoolover420469]

It's a white cable that hooks up from the cable modem to the computer. It hooks up to the back of the tower in one of two slots.

[Facedown98]

Hi. A white cable that goes directly from the modem to the computer?

Have a look at these images below, and tell me which looks most like the cable you see...

Ethernet

Coaxial Cable

USB

[tattoolover420469]

It's a USB cable.

[dsenette]

did the modem come with a cd or anything like that?

[tattoolover420469]

It did but the comcast person took it with him.

[Facedown98]

I would call Comcast and see if they will send you a CD. There's nothing special on that CD, so there's no reason for the install technician to take it with him.

[tattoolover420469]

Alright thanks.

[Facedown98]

Sure thing, let us know how things turn out

[98springer]

If you're trying to use both the USB and Ethernet connections on the cable modem, I don't think that will work. On mine it's one or the other, not both.

[Facedown98]

I'm under the impression that there is only a USB cable connected from the modem to the computer... Is that correct?

Your theory is correct, it will not work with both connected as far as I know.